As the House Agriculture Committee prepares to consider Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson’s proposed farm bill next week, soy growers are contacting their representatives to express support for soybean priorities included in the bill.
ASA’s farm bill priorities addressed in the chairman’s proposal include:
- Improving the Title I farm safety net to be more responsive and predictable, including meaningful adjustments to reference prices and greater access to Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage through expansion of base acres.
- Expanding trade promotion programs to help grow and diversify agricultural markets through a doubling of funding for the Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development program.
- Protecting and enhancing crop insurance to assist with volatile weather and crop loss.
- Maintaining the farmer-financed soybean research and promotion checkoff.
- Building biobased market opportunities to promote soy utilization.
- Investing in research for innovation and competitiveness.
- Providing biofuels opportunities to help the nation become more energy independent.
- Enabling greater access to voluntary conservation programs to meet demand through historic investments.
The House Ag Committee will mark up the farm bill Thursday, May 23.
